Today, I heard some drastic news. Mr. Bruns informed us that last hour didn't get to Ford, so this dissussion will now go on to monday. YES! Anyway.. talking about our assigned blog due this sunday and our Cold War project worth TWO HUNDRED POINTS. Going over Johnson..
Great Society:
Johnson Plans to..
- aid education
- diseases
- Medicare and Medicad
- urban renewal
- beautification, conservation, developement of depressed regions.
- war on poverty.
- control and prevention of crime
- removal of obstacles to the right to vote.
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965: federal money went to public schools, focus was poor schools.
- Higher Education Act of 1965: focused on funding lower income students.
- Set up the National Endowment for the Arts.
- Economic Opportunity Act helped start Head Start, food stamps, Work Study, Medicare and Medicad.
- Gun Control Act of 1968 - regulates the firearms industry and firearm owners. Passed in response to the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK.
Johnson and Vietnam
- Vietnam Conflict dominated much of Johnson's presidency.
- Believed in Domino Theory - of one country falls, the rest will.
- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1964 - Congress gave Johnson power to wage war in Vietnam as he saw fit.
President Richard Nixon
37th President, 1969-1974
- Vice President of Eisenhower.
- Lost 1960 election to JFK
- Only person to be elected twice to both Presidency and the Vice Presidency
- Only President to resign from office. (or he was gonna get kicked out
Accomplishments
- Vietnam Conflict domiated much of his presidency-war became very unpopular.
- Promised to end the war "Peace with honnor."
- Expanded the war to Cambodia and Laos - Bombing Ho Chi MinhTrial
- Started pulling troops out of Vietnam as promised.
- The Nixon Doctrine - "Vietnamization" of the war.
- Paris Peace Accords signed in 1973 stopped the fighting and got the US out of the war.
Enviromental Decade
- National Enviromental Policy Act.
- Clean Air Act of 1970
- Federal Water Pollution Control Act
- Established many government agencies:
Enviromental Protection Agency.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Council on Enviromental Quality.
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